Ninety percent of Metro Manila area is flooded, as of writing time. Knee-deep. Neck-deep. For some time, I have been wanting to photoblog this homeland as the land of the living. I took photos of the Philippine archipelago, albeit limited by the window pane of airplanes. Now seeing people swimming and paddling in what used to be a street for pedestrian and cars, what’s there to see the land, much more say something about the land of the living?

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The rain in Metro Manila seems to drown this homeland as the land of the living. But my take on this would have been as what David, in the book of Psalms, declared, “I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” And he wrote that not out of the midst of dangers. The Psalmist’s declaration of confidence and hope was not being unrealistic. That time, he was perhaps fighting Saul who was the King of Israel. But when most of our eyes are clouded to believe that this is now the land of the living dead, David and I would still wait for the Lord; “be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord”.

I am still proud to declare that this homeland is still a destination of choice, and a home.

“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him.” Psalm 24:1, ESV

boris p pascubillo

he writes to affirm desiderata's with all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. he makes photographs to shoutout that when God created this homeland, He saw that it was good.